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Happy Fine Motor Friday! We are going a little crazy with contact paper lately after last week’s sticky dresses and robot outfits. This contact paper doll dresses activity is pretty similar but my daughter loves it so much I though I’d share it too! If you saw last week’s post, you know that my daughter…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! Today’s Preschool Fine Motor Activities were SUPER fun! We’ve done contact paper fine motor skills activities before- but never like this! My daughter wanted to play dress up one day and asked to wear a white dress like a fairy she had seen that day. We don’t have a white dresses…
Happy Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s super simple fine motor activity might look like the top two items on your back to school list, which is one of the reasons I love it- they are everyday materials! So. You give pencils and erasers to an elementary school aged kid and clearly they’re school supplies meant to…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! We are back with the usual suspects this week with an A is for Apple Craft using a simple CUT-punch-PASTE method. This is a super simple craft that incorporates cutting practice, paper punches, gluing and drawing to encourage fine motor skills practice. A is for Apple Craft Materials: Red and green…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Friday! Today I have free printable Play Dough “Pinch Challenge” Mats that make great fine motor activities for pinch strength! Partner affiliate links to products we recommend are used in this post. I was out to dinner with a couple fellow mom recently and one of them mentioned that much…
It is time for another Fine Motor Friday! Today’s simple fine motor skills activity is all about learning colors for toddlers. Mister 1 noticed Miss 4’s Frozen Fractals sticky collage on the window the other day and I thought he might like to stick some torn paper onto it. He went crazy for it so…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s fine motor activities all feature one common ingredient: SLIME! We are not frequent messy play people, as you could tell by our first messy playdate and our basic rice sensory play day. But slime was actually quite a hit with my daughter so during little brother’s nap time we mixed…
Happy Fine Motor Friday! Today’s DIY Toy is the Ultimate PVC Play Table in a Bag! Playing trains, building with LEGO, lining up roads and driving cars- these are all great playful ways to help kids develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills! I call this the ULTIMATE play table because you can use it…
This week for Fine Motor Fridays we have another Disney Frozen Craft for you to go along with our Jointed Frozen Olaf and our Frozen Inspired Chill Out Jar. Make sure you stick around at the end of this post to see what the other Fine Motor Fridays gals have been up to this week!…
We are back for Fine Motor Fridays! This week we did some fun writing activities for kids on our super easy outdoor writing center! (This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.) The other night LalyDad and I were talking about how Miss Three (almost four!) has…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! We are getting ready for Mother’s Day around here and wanted a simple craft project to do with the kids. My answer was this easy edible paint idea using nothing but chocolate! If you have kids that put everything in their mouths, you may not put painting at the…
Today’s fine motor Friday’s post is a simple tutorial to make DIY Preschool Manipulatives. If you come by here often you know we love DIY toys– especially toys made from recyclables! My new mantra is Save the Planet: Make a Toy! When LalyDad and I order out we tend to pick our favorites over and…
Easter always sneaks up on me so I am prepping early with these Peeps Puppets Easter Games! This post will tell you how to make them, including a materials list with affiliate links as well as the details on the free printable Peeps template! This will be the first Easter that we will have a preschooler in…
Welcome to another week of Fine Motor Fridays! Today’s fine motor activities for toddlers are all about Velcro! Fuzzy, textured, noise-making, velcro appeals to kids in so many ways, and makes for such fun activities. Velcro is one of those materials that can be kind of mesmerizing…no matter what age you are! The sound, the feeling, even…
Welcome back to Fine Motor Fridays! Today I am bringing you Fine Motor Activities for Preschoolers using hammers! LalyDad took Miss Three to a free Lowe’s Build and Grow Workshop for the first time recently and they made a terrific birdhouse. They had a lot of fun and Miss Three was in a very peppy…
Welcome back to our collaborative weekly series, Fine Motor Fridays! I’m teaming up with a group of kid bloggers to bring you another set of original, playful Fine Motor Activities! This week I have 10 ways to use BIG BUBBLE WRAP for playful fine motor skills activities! Back when I was working on my Bubble…
This week for Fine Motor Fridays I’ve got a fun St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Kids that has bonus Fine Motor Fun added in! We haven’t done much for St. Patrick’s Day at our house in the past. We usually get together with friends at a family-friendly Irish Pub in Chicago. It’s pretty fun to…
We are back for Fine Motor Fridays with a funny little craft inspired by a question my 3 1/2 year old daughter asked me. She saw a cartoon episode about loose teeth where they talked about the Tooth Fairy but the show didn’t give a lot of information for someone who is new to the…
Happy Fine Motor Fridays! This week I have a tutorial for an easy DIY Toddler Toy to Develop Fine Motor Skills! It uses shrink film (commonly known as Shrinky Dinks) and ribbon to make a Ribbon Pull Toy that is sure to get that pincer grasp a workin’! If you don’t have shrink film or you want…
Welcome back to our collaborative Fine Motor Fridays series! We’re back with another fun fine motor skills activity, this time using something a lot of moms may have laying around the house- Velcro rollers! My hair is naturally wavy/curly…but not the kind that looks nice without some taming. So I’ve had these Velcro rollers sitting in my…
